Ricky Skaggs

“(This guitar) has that real dry vintage sound, and you don’t have to wait 40 years to get it. I mean, I think with the years of experience that Dana has had, I think he just kinda knows what to go after when he is cutting the bracing for these guitars, and choosing the wood. So much of that really is Dana’s ability to choose wood and choose a top and its flexibility and all that. And the way he tunes a top as he is cutting and carving and listening to it, you know flexing it. I think he, mathematically, in his mind, he knows what this guitar is gonna sound like. And, so here again, it’s Dana’s experience. There are a lot of guys building guitars, but (strums guitar) they don’t all have that. You know, and like I said, for bluegrass, it has got that thing that moves air in front of a microphone. It really moves air, you can hear the notes don’t necessarily run together like a lot of guitar builders do. The way Dana has designed this stuff, the notes have their individual voice. That’s the mark, I think, of a great Luthier, you know, someone who understands that dynamic of sound.”